World Pantheist Internet Communities: A User Guide

WHAT DO YOU NEED? Use our Facebook Page if you want the largest gathering with short posts and comments about Nature, science and Pantheism Use our social network site Ning if you want a local group, or if you want to know, share or discuss more about Pantheist ideas and ways of living. Follow us on Twitter if you want just the headlines and main links. Subscribe to our Youtube channel if you want the best videos on Nature, Science and Pantheism. Or, do all of the above! Note for old hands: the above social sites have largely superseded our previous system of many Yahoo mailing lists for different subjects and local groups.
	Our everyday hang-out on Facebook is the World Pantheism Page. Click the "Like" button and then receive messages on your Wall from World Pantheism. The messages include quotes from famous pantheists, and links to the most stimulating and enlightening news items and videos relevant to Pantheism about science, nature and environment. There is an average of one World Pantheism post per day. You will only get the post from World Pantheism - not from other fans on that page. We know you may have many interests and friends and we are careful to avoid overload. Fans can also post appropriate content there, including informative videos, links to news items, and personal comments and FAQs. This page is not the right place for debate about controversial or academic matters. If you want to debate issues that Pantheists disagree about, the page has a discussions tab, but this is not much used (Ning is the main place for that, see below.) We also have a Pantheism group. This has fewer features than the main page and has largely been superseded by it. Please Like pages you enjoy using the button in the social toolbox (to the right). This will place an item on your Facebook wall with a link and a brief description - it will help to make your friends aware of Naturalistic Pantheism. If you want to repeat that link on your wall again in a few weeks or months, go to our page and "Unlike" it and then Like it again.
We are now also actively posting on Google+. You can +1 most of our pages from the social toolbox on the right.
	Our network at Ning is our most richly featured community. Ning is a leading provider of multi-featured social sites with images, videos, music. Our World Pantheism network is the best place to explore Pantheism, to get to know individuals with shared interests, or pantheists near you, and to discuss topics of interest to Pantheists. SMALL GROUPS inside a global framework are the best way for us to feel we belong to a large community - while at the same time feeling that we know a smaller circle of friends much better. Practical living groups: How do pantheists live their daily lives? There are many groups that focus on practical life issues such as birth and babies, parenting, ageing, relationships, health and fitness, mental wholeness, natural death. Hobby groups: What turns us on? There are many groups on hobbies beloved to pantheists, from gardening and pets through books, movies and music, to photography and astronomy. Local groups: How do we get together? There are many groups for individual countries, big cities, and US states or regions. A growing number of these groups have arranged local meetings and some of them have turned into regular local groups. DISCUSSIONS: What do we believe? We have many quality discussions on many topics from religions and philosophy, through environment and science, to ethics and social issues. USEFUL HINTS FOR NING For sharing, use the groups or the Wall. For debate and academic stuff, use the discussions. After you sign up, take it slowly: don't try to do too much. Join your local group, read the Wall, and maybe join one interest group. Limit the emails you receive.
	Our Youtube World Pantheism channel is currently under construction. It will feature the best videos we can find on Nature and the wider Universe, and on Pantheism, science, reason, and other inspirational and eye-opening stuff. Meanwhile you can take a peek and subscribe.
	Our Twitter account plays headlines from our World Pantheism Facebook Page. You might find it easier to access this from your mobile device. The last two or three headlines are shown on our website main page.
	A few Pantheist Meetup groups are still functional but Ning is best for local groups We found Meetup way too expensive ($144 per year for just three locations!) and not participatory enough (the organizer chooses the venues). So we no longer use Meetup. If you are interested in local groups, join our Ning network, put your pin on the Map, and join your local group. If there isn't one for your area, suggest one.

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